Re: GTK+-2.0.0 release schedule

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 09:39 15.02.02 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>Tor Lillqvist writes:
> > This probably means that we will have to admit that GTK+ 2.0.0 won't
> > work nearly as well as one could hope on Windows.
>
>BTW, I have "almost ready" on my machine a largish set of changes to
>the gdk/win32 backend. Do you see any reason not to commit it during
>the next day or weekend? It am "almost" sure it doesn't make the Win32
>backend worse. 
After reading your patch I'm all for applying it ASAP. Maybe I can
help to sort out some of the remaining issues before gtk+-2.0-final

>It does simplify the code and make 256-color mode work,
>for instance. (I test it with the GTK+ test and demo programs, and
>won't commit until they work OK, of course. However, I don't currently
>have a GIMP 1.3 build environment set up, and unless I have the time
>to do that, I can't check with GIMP.)
>
Will try it at last against my TARGET_GTK_2_0 Dia branch ...

>As the Win32 backend in HEAD doesn't work very well currently anyway
>(IMHO), I don't think this should be held back because of the
>impending GTK+ 2.0.0 release?
>
Where do you see win32 specific 'doesn't-work-very-well' issues ?

	Hans

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